Supported carrier boards

List of supported boards

Zynq-7000 boards

Carrier board

FMC

Zynq-7000 ZedBoard

LPC

Zynq-7000 PicoZed FMC Carrier Card V2 with PicoZed 7015

LPC

Zynq-7000 PicoZed FMC Carrier Card V2 with PicoZed 7020

LPC

Zynq-7000 PicoZed FMC Carrier Card V2 with PicoZed 7030

LPC

Zynq-7000 ZC702 Evaluation board

LPC1, LPC2

Zynq-7000 ZC706 Evaluation board

LPC

Zynq UltraScale+ boards

Carrier board

FMC

Zynq UltraScale+ UltraZed EV Carrier Card

HPC

Zynq UltraScale+ ZCU102 Evaluation board

HPC0, HPC1

Series-7 FPGA boards

Carrier board

FMC

Artix-7 AC701 Evaluation board

HPC

Kintex-7 KC705 Evaluation board

LPC, HPC

Virtex-7 VC707 Evaluation board

HPC1, HPC2

Virtex-7 VC709 Evaluation board

HPC

UltraScale/UltraScale+ boards

Carrier board

FMC

Kintex UltraScale KCU105 Evaluation board

LPC, HPC

Virtex UltraScale+ VCU108 Evaluation board

HPC0, HPC1

Virtex UltraScale+ VCU118 Evaluation board

HPC1

Unlisted boards

If you need more information on whether the Ethernet FMC is compatible with a carrier that is not listed above, please first check the compatibility list. If the carrier is not listed there, please contact Opsero, provide us with the pinout of your carrier and we’ll be happy to check compatibility and generate a Vivado constraints file for you.

Using 2x Ethernet FMCs for 8-ports

The only evaluation boards that can support two Ethernet FMCs simultaneously are:

This repository contains example designs for using 2 x Ethernet FMCs on the same carrier. They all use 8 Xilinx AXI Ethernet Subsystem IPs that are configured with DMAs, except for the ZC702 design, which is configured with FIFOs. The reason for this is a lack of FPGA resources as using 8 MACs configured with DMAs requires more resources than is contained in the Zynq device of that board.

These notes provide more details on 8-port support:

  • The KC705 and VC707 each have two FMC connectors that support the Ethernet FMC (use kc705-lpc-hpc.xdc and vc707-hpc2-hpc1.xdc respectively).

  • The KCU105 can support two Ethernet FMCs however the LPC only supports 3 ports so the dual design contains only 7 ports total.

  • The ZC702 has two FMC connectors that can support the Ethernet FMC, however note that the Zynq device on this board has limited FPGA resources for supporting 8 x Xilinx AXI Ethernet IPs (ie. the MACs). The device has enough resources when the 8 MACs are configured with FIFOs, however there are insufficient resources to configure them with DMAs. Alternatively, you could use a MAC that requires less resources. (use zc702-lpc2-lpc1.xdc)

  • The ZC706 has two FMC connectors, but only one (the LPC) can support the Ethernet FMC (see detail in board specific notes below).

Board specific notes

AC701

  • The AC701’s on-board Ethernet port is not connected in this design.

  • This design includes a reset GPIO so that the MicroBlaze can reset itself from PetaLinux.

KC705

  • The KC705’s on-board Ethernet port is connected to AXI EthernetLite IP in these designs.

  • This design includes a reset GPIO so that the MicroBlaze can reset itself from PetaLinux.

VC707 & VC709

  • These boards can only support the 1.8V version Ethernet FMC. The device on these boards have only HP (high-performance) I/Os which do not support 2.5V levels.

ZC706

  • Zynq-7000 ZC706 Evaluation board (HPC)

    • HPC connector: Pins LA18_CC and LA17_CC of the HPC connector are routed to non-clock-capable pins so they cannot properly receive the RGMII receive clocks for ports 2 and 3 of the Ethernet FMC. The constraints file zc706-hpc.xdc is provided for reference, however it will not pass compilation with the Xilinx tools due to this problem.

KCU105

  • This board can only support the 1.8V version Ethernet FMC. The device on this board has only HP (high-performance) I/Os which do not support 2.5V levels.

  • KCU105 board design for the LPC connector is configured for only 3 ports as there is a strange placement error which occurs when trying to build a design with 4 ports. The placement error has to do with IDELAYs and I have not reached a solution for this yet. There is no such problem with the HPC for this board.

ZCU102

  • These designs support the ZCU102 Rev 1.0 and newer boards. Use a commit before 2016-02-13 for the older Rev-D board design. Note that the FMC pinouts differ between Rev 1.0 and Rev D: Answer record 68050

  • This board can only support the 1.8V version Ethernet FMC. The device on this board has only HP (high-performance) I/Os which do not support 2.5V levels.

  • The HPC1 design only supports 2 ports due to the HPC1 pin assignment to the Zynq US+ (see constraints file for more details).

PicoZed

This repository contains a Vivado design for these PicoZed versions: 7Z020, 7Z015 and 7Z030. The main differences between the designs are described below:

  • 7Z020: We use 4x AXI Ethernet IPs. The constraints file uses the 2.5V IO standards.

  • 7Z015: We use 4x AXI Ethernet IPs. The constraints file uses the 2.5V IO standards.

  • 7Z030: We use 4x AXI Ethernet IPs. The constraints file uses the 1.8V IO standards because this device has HP I/Os.

Microblaze design differences

The designs for AC701, KC705, VC707, VC709, KCU105, VCU108 & VCU118 all use the Microblaze soft processor. These designs have some specific differences when compared to the Zynq based designs:

  • MIG - the MIG is required to exploit the DDR3/4 memory of the eval boards.

  • AXI Timer - the lwIP echo server application requires a timer (Microblaze does not have one inherently).

  • AXI UART16550 - the lwIP echo server application requires a UART for console output.